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… “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a … did. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, …

… The thick walls of a medieval city offered protection to its inhabitants. While … had written two short articles on urban life. Frugoni combined the two articles, included her own notes, and has … almost entirely on its inhabitants. To do so, she deftly combines textual and visual sources. Using primarily the …

… America Pageant. As early as the 1880s, business owners and community leaders began organizing beauty pageants in … budget for 1922 and invited women from across the county to compete in what was now a truly national event. The modern … on a television network. Given their tenuous hold on TV audiences, one could argue that beauty pageants harken back to …

… of actors, including African patients themselves, families, communities, traditional healers, healthcare workers, and … the colonial era. Lee notes that certain disease outbreaks coincided with the onset of colonial rule, such as sleeping … part of the book examines a set of four disease case studies: HIV/AIDS, mental illness, tropical diseases and …

… were an obvious denominational marker. “Part Two: Dynamics” comprises the bulk of the book. In chapters five through … of some pilgrims were not strictly spiritual, and he compares the practice with modern tourism. In chapter … churches, towns, and individuals over the course of the medieval period. Two chapters on the imagery and literature …

… Several bomb blasts accompanied Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Pakistan. This … was a wake-up call in more ways than one. The moment had come for Clinton to act more boldly as the nation’s top … Likewise our most effective foreign policies have come under strong and secure secretaries of state. Of …

… the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … security and linked bearing arms to civic duty. Despite its common invocation today by gun rights advocates as the … for the military, lawmakers asked military officers to compare the safety and effectiveness of firearms …

… number of letters that prove he was no dummy. A historian’s complaint, however, is larger than chagrin at the number of … nation to alter its perceptions, values and policies. The comfortable old ways will no longer do. Reagan had an … Indeed, it was known when he took office, for two national commissions (the 1972 National Commission on Population and …

… the public acts of its officials.”   Kennedy affirmed his commitment to an America that is “officially neither … ‘Almighty God’” and proclaimed that “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand … law and the presidency and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… terrain. When the war did not progress as planned, military commitments escalated. America’s credibility had to be … of the so-called “lessons of the past” presently being bandied about. It concerns the West’s response to the … culture and politics, and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… merely create a postal system, the most important means of communication at the turn of the 19 th century. It … years later, William McKinley was repaid handsomely for his service to big business when they funded his presidential … rail against the New Deal it isn’t the mortgage subsidies or the SEC they have in mind, it’s the social welfare …

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be … had written “Profiles in Courage,” a book composed of studies of Americans who had stood fast under pressure. In … College in Virginia and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… the economic crisis ripples through the world, some liberal commentators say that the only solution to it is a … There was a political side to the global New Deal, too, embodied in the United Nations. Many of the UN's founders wanted … are working at jobs that flood the world with goods and services, while they receive wages so low that they remain …

… they should be careful what they wish for. In order to become president of the United States, the Constitution … The proposal seems motivated by one man’s chances to become president: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born … Hamilton never became president; his clause essentially died with him when he was shot in a duel in 1803. But the …

… the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … the Soviet Union has disappeared, and Russia stopped subsidies to Cuba in 1991. Communism still exists in the world, … air travel between the two countries, reinstated mail service, eased delivery to Cuba of agricultural products, …

… for Independence. "Liberty or Death" exemplifies the do-or-die attitude. Surprisingly, Patrick Henry's conduct when he … to 79. Had Henry chosen to fight, Mason's fears might have come true. The infant nation was fragile. In Massachusetts, …

… secretary Robert Gates — to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade some to the Medal … and direct eyewitness testimony. Only 178 Distinguished Service Crosses out of more than 13,000 issued since 1917 … killed, and the chopper crashed. Benavidez dragged the bodies out, tended the wounded, and set up a second perimeter. …

… call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California … it into a vehicle which will organize a massive march to coincide with the first inauguration of President Woodrow … says things like “Oh God, if I have to meet with these ladies, can I at least please pick the time that they come?!” …

… South Asia’s geopolitical landscape, it also bears a more complex and lesser-known set of legacies for how we think … murder and deportation of the populace—the army of Pakistan committed war crimes that reached the level of genocide. … of a Congressional sanction. The U.S., in other words, was complicit in an unfolding humanitarian crisis of astounding …

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a personal connections with the captives, … who joined the remnants of the earlier group (some had died or been released earlier). Not until 1796 did the new …

… post-1868 empire, including Korea and Taiwan . The Chinese Communist Party would be reborn and re-legitimized through … year, the ROC capital of Nanjing fell in what one military commentator called “the worst holocaust of brutality since … to British Malaya, Singapore , and Burma; the Dutch East Indies; and Australia-administered New Guinea. They even …